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The Best Field & Stream Reader Photos From January 2012

Dave_Maccar — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:06:52 -0500

The 50 Best Field & Stream Reader Photos of January.

The Best Shotguns of 2012

Dave_Maccar — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:56:43 -0500

These are the best new shotguns of 2012.

The Best New Rifles of 2012

Dave_Maccar — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:41:18 -0500

The Best New Rifles of 2012.

SHOT Show 2012 From The Floor: Day 3

Online Editors — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:48:52 -0500

Photos from the floor of SHOT Show 2012, Day 2.

SHOT Show 2012 From The Floor: Day 2

Dave_Maccar — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:34:22 -0500

Photos from the floor of SHOT Show 2012, Day 2.

SHOT Show 2012 From The Floor: Day I

Dave_Maccar — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:48:40 -0500

Photos from the floor of SHOT Show 2012, Day 1.

The Best Field & Stream Reader Photos From 2011

Dave_Maccar — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:15:14 -0500

The 60 best photos submitted by readers in 2011.

Field & Stream's Best Photo Galleries and Blogs of 2011

Dave_Maccar — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:53:52 -0500

The 25 best online stories from F&S in 2011.

The Best Field & Stream Reader Photos From December 2011

Dave_Maccar — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:44:10 -0500

The 50 Best Field & Stream Reader Photos of December.

First Shots Photo Collection

Online Editors — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 10:59:48 -0500

A collection of jaw-dropping hunting and fishing photos from Field & Stream's "First Shots" magazine section.

The 75 Best Field & Stream Reader Photos From November 2011

Dave_Maccar — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:13:59 -0500

The 50 Best Field & Stream Reader Photos of October.

The 50 Best Photos from Round II of the 2011 F&S Fall Trail Cam Contest

Online Editors — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:51:21 -0500

The Best 2011 Round 2 Trail Cam Photos

Game Farm Where Pete The Moose Lived Slated For Closure

Sarah Smith — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 11:45:19 -0400

--Chad Love

Remember Pete, the orphaned and now-deceased Vermont moose at the heart of a debate over game farms? Apparently Pete's not the only thing that's gone.

From this story in The Boston Globe:

The northern Vermont game preserve where Pete the Moose lived and died is to close, state officials said yesterday, moving Vermont a step closer to ending the practice of allowing wildlife to be imported into the state and fenced in on private hunting grounds. Walt Driscoll, a member of the state Fish and Wildlife Board, said the owner of the Big Rack Ridge hunting preserve told him he planned to close the preserve in Irasburg.

Moostaken Identity: Eleventh Case of People Shooting Moose On Elk Licenses

Sarah Smith — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 11:11:52 -0400

--Chad Love

Hunters in Colorado seem to be having a hard time telling their elk from their moose.

From this story in The Denver Post:

In the aftermath of the state's 11th case of mistaken identity so far this hunting season, Colorado Parks and Wildlife is at its wits' end. "A lot of people are shooting moose on elk licenses," said CPW statewide information officer Randy Hampton. "It's happening too frequently and it's frustrating. People need to take some time and identify their target clearly. It's the first rule of hunter safety: Know what you're shooting at."

Vermont's Pete the Moose Dies, Game Park Owner Admits to Cover-up

Online Editors — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:06:18 -0400

--Chad Love

Vermonters and moose lovers everywhere are mourning the passing of Pete, the orphaned moose whose plight captured the attention of...people who pay attention to such things. Pete's death was bad enough, but it appears that Pete's been dead for quite some time and the animal everyone thought was Pete was in fact a Pete proxy. Confused? Read on...

From this story on abcnews.com:

The owner of the game park where Pete the Moose lived has taken responsibility for covering up the death of Vermont's favorite animal, the state's fish and wildlife commissioner said Saturday. Pete, whose life in captivity helped prompt the state to pass new wildlife laws and who received a gubernatorial pardon last winter, died in early September at the Big Rack Ridge in Irasburg while being tranquilized during hoof trimming. But state officials insisted he was alive until Friday, even issuing a photo taken Thursday of a moose it identified as Pete. The moose in the picture turned out to be a different animal, prompting Pete's Facebook fans to start accusing the state of a cover-up. But Commissioner Patrick Berry said park owner Doug Nelson has since admitted that he delayed telling state officials about Pete's death.

Heroes of Conservation Winner Announced!

Dave_Maccar — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:58:38 -0400

At a time when the U.S. government is being asked to do more with less, conservationists all over the country are doing more without waiting to be asked. These efforts were recognized at the sixth annual Heroes of Conservation awards gala, sponsored by Field & Stream and Toyota. "It's a critical time, budgets are tight, and it is possible that essential projects to restore and protect America's wildlife and lands will be shelved due to lack of funds," F&S Editor Anthony Licata said at the Washington, D.C. event. "But there is hope. We are humbled by and incredibly grateful to people like our heroes, who are willing to work even when there isn't a budget."

Video, Interview: Mountain Biker Clobbered by Charging Antelope

Dave_Maccar — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:31:20 -0400

by Dave Maccar

Charging wildlife isn’t the first thing on a mountain biker’s mind in the heat of a race, but the animals don’t know that.

Evan van der Spuy was racing in the 38 km Time Freight MTB Express mountain bike race at Albert Falls Dam, 20km outside the city of Pietermaritzburg in Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa for Team Jeep South Africa over the weekend.

His teammate, Travis Walker, was in third place with a GoPro camera mounted on his bike, and captured this amazing footage below of Evan, who was in second place until this red hartebeest (a member of the antelope family) had something to say about it.

Yes, the hit was as hard as it looks. Evan was stabilized with a neck brace and taken to the hospital for overnight observation. He sustained a minor concussion, whiplash and some bruising on his head where his helmet imploded on impact.

F&S spoke to Evan today to get his take on the events behind this video, which is rapidly going viral.

Evan said he is recovering well, and feels extremely lucky.

“Luckily I walked away with just a bit of whiplash and a concussion, considering what happened,” he says. “I saw the animal moving to cross the road in front of me, but when I saw how close it really was, I was shocked. Then, from the moment it hit me I was unconscious. I actually don’t know what happened from then.”

Nine People Rescue N.H. Moose Stuck In Backyard Pool

Sarah Smith — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:22:49 -0400

--Chad Love

A couple years ago I wrote a blog post wherein I opined (from an admittedly uninformed position) that moose were not the sharpest ungulate in the woods. I believe I wrote "There are some game animals I just can't warm up to. The moose is one of them. They're ugly, ungainly, ungraceful, short-tempered and much, much larger than they need to be. But I'm from Oklahoma, where the moose are animated and foil crime with their rodent pals"

The moose-lovers among you were (rightly) quick to point out that I was being unfair to our largest and least-attractive member of the deer family, that in fact moose were quite the opposite of ungainly, they were actually quite graceful and delicate for their immense size, regular ballerinas of the muskeg, they were, etc., etc., ad nauseum.

Drunk Swedish Moose Found Stuck In Tree

Sarah Smith — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 10:22:19 -0400

--Chad Love

We all know someone who's just no fun to drink with. The guy who, when he gets a few in him, becomes a loudmouth, a braggart, a belligerent or - if you're particularly unlucky - a weepy "I love you bro" babbler. But in my book there's nothing, absolutely nothing, worse than an ungulate who can't hold his liquor...

From this story on Huffington Post:

Too much elk-ahol? Rescue workers had their hands full on Tuesday night when an apparently drunk moose got itself stuck in a tree in Gothenburg, Sweden. Police believe that the moose became tipsy after ingesting a few too many fermented apples. "I thought at first that someone was having a laugh." Per Johansson, who first spotted the animal, told Swedish newspaper The Local . "Then I went over to take a look and spotted an elk stuck in an apple tree with only one leg left on the ground."

Minnesota Moose Population May Be Doomed

Sarah Smith — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 12:06:55 -0400

--Chad Love

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is proposing to ban the feeding of deer in parts of the state as a last-ditch effort to halt declining moose populations.

From this story in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune:
Worried that Minnesota's iconic North Woods moose population could be doomed, the state Department of Natural Resources is proposing an end to recreational deer feeding in northeast Minnesota and the possible closure of moose hunting. But neither step may be enough to keep moose from vanishing from Minnesota. "If we don't do anything, the end point [for moose] is fairly certain,'' said Lou Cornicelli, DNR big game program leader. The proposals are part of a long-term moose management plan released by the DNR this week. The plan offers those strategies and others, including improving habitat and boosting research, to try to reverse the decline in the moose population.

Public Ownership of our Wildlife Resources Confirmed in Vermont

Dave_Maccar — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:58:25 -0400

by Hal Herring

Vermont’s Governor Peter Shumlin has signed into law a bill, H.91, that codifies the old North American Model of Conservation principle that wildlife belongs to the people, to be managed by the states with the people’s consent. Field and Stream’s own Lawrence Pyne has the best story on the new law and the skullduggery that led to its creation. Hint: game farmers enclosing the public’s wildlife, aided by hasty and misguided politicians, made the new law necessary. In a series of ruses that would have delighted Prince Machiavelli, the photogenic once-wild, now-captive Pete the Moose was used in a campaign to privatize your wildlife. The saga began at a domestic elk-shooting farm near Irasburg.

From Pyne’s story in the Burlington Free Press:
Conceding that he and other lawmakers made a mistake last year, Gov. Peter Shumlin signed into law Wednesday legislation that nullifies an amendment a few legislators put into the annual appropriations bill in the final hours of the 2010 session. That amendment stripped the state Fish and Wildlife Department of its authority to regulate a so-called "captive hunting facility" in Irasburg and, worse, it essentially transferred ownership of Pete and scores of other native moose and white-tailed deer trapped in the facility to its owner. He was then free to sell them to the highest rifle-toting bidder, despite a state Fish and Wildlife Board rule crafted with legislative oversight and considerable public input that forbids having native deer in a captive facility for wildlife health reasons.

The 30 Best Field & Stream Reader Photos of May 2011

Online Editors — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:45:32 -0400

These great photos are our editors' picks for the best shots entered into our Trophy Room last month.

The 40 Best Reader Photos of April 2011

Online Editors — Tue, 03 May 2011 08:27:38 -0400

These great photos are our editors' picks for the best shots entered into our Trophy Room last month.

Federal Court Rules in Favor of Hunting on Wildlife Refuges

Online Editors — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 11:24:25 -0400

Hunters won a major victory yesterday when a federal court ruled in favor of allowing hunting on dozens of national wildlife refuges.

From this press release from Ducks Unlimited:
Ducks Unlimited and waterfowl hunters across the nation are celebrating today’s federal district court ruling that supports the opening of waterfowl hunting on a number of public lands. Today’s ruling from the Northern Federal Court District of Ohio will help ensure that our country’s waterfowl hunting heritage will be protected. DU joined with Safari Club International and others to intervene in this action on behalf of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service as they attempted to open waterfowl hunting on almost 70 national wildlife refuges around the country. The action was opposed by anti-hunting interests in a lawsuit. After the ruling, Ducks Unlimited CEO Dale Hall said he supported the decision and reaffirmed DU’s support of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. “Ducks Unlimited and its members have always been strong supporters of the National Wildlife Refuge System, whether it is through participating in the purchase of duck stamps or through directly partnering with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,” Hall said. “I’m pleased this ruling will allow the USFWS to continue its mission of managing and conserving waterfowl and other wildlife along with offering quality wildlife-related recreation opportunities to the American public.”

The 40 Best Field & Stream Reader Photos of March 2011

Online Editors — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 11:07:47 -0400

Each month we look through every photo our readers post to the Trophy Room section of our site. We pick our favorites, then rank them and post them, in order. Did any of your shots make the cut? Check them out here.